Proportional representation: Difference between revisions

In asset voting,<ref name=smithMultisurv/><ref name=smithAssetMultiwin>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Warren|title="Asset voting" scheme for multiwinner elections|url=http://rangevoting.org/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/multiwin.pdf|date=8 March 2005}}</ref> the voters vote for candidates and then the candidates negotiate amongst each other and reallocate votes amongst themselves. Asset voting was proposed by [[Lewis Carroll]] in 1884<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/ThePrinciplesOfParliamentaryRepresentation |title=The Principles of Parliamentary Representation |last=Dodgson |first=Charles |date=1884 |publisher=London: Harrison and Sons |access-date=28 June 2019 |quote=The Elector must understand that, in giving his vote to ''A'', he gives it to him as his absolute property, to use for himself, or to transfer to other Candidates, or to leave unused.}}</ref> and has been more recently independently rediscovered and extended by [[Warren D. Smith]] and [[Forest Simmons]].<ref name=smithAssetWeb>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Warren|title=Asset voting – an interesting and very simple multiwinner voting system|url=http://rangevoting.org/Asset.html|access-date=4 April 2016}}</ref> As such, this method substitutes candidates' collective preferences for those of the voters.